Tuesday, November 8, 2016

Today's The Day!

Today is finally here! That day where we jump out of one frying pan and into the another one repeatedly over and over until...oh, wait, that was just a nightmare I had about voting. The reality is that most people will go to the polls today and cast their ballot and whatever happens, will happen. For better or worse, the Republic will survive.

As you can see, it is going to be close and could even come down to another recount in Florida. It also could happen that one candidate wins the popular vote, while the other wins the electoral vote.

Some of you have already had the opportunity to cast your votes. Good for you! But for those of us who have to cast our votes the old fashioned way by actually standing line, let us know what is happening at your polling place. As always, let us know what you think, how your feeling, and, most importantly, what you're drinkin' to get through the night until the results start rolling in.

If you are still undecided, maybe this video from Cleveland will help you decide...

2. Trump. Sh*t. Bobby Jindal would have been amazing. Marco Rubio would have been great. Scott Walker would have been good. The right is stupid.

3. This was the worst election ever from the left. This election was about smears, race baiting and gender baiting. Don't ever believe again that the left acts in good faith.

4. The media finally went all in and became an arm of the Democratic party. The Wikileaks stuff is just the icing on an obvious cake. Not only did they get Clinton team approval for stories... not only did they give Clinton debate questions in advance... not only did they ignore all kinds of things they knew about Clinton while repeating obvious lies about Trump as fact... but the DNC even helped prep Wolf Blitzer and NBC to question Trump. Think about that.

5. Our elites may win this election, but they are losers, and I suspect they are getting close to finding their backs against the wall one way or another.

I agree on all of your points, Andrew. But I will add this, Jindal, Walker, Rubio...they would have been crushed by the Clinton machine. As much as I abhor Trump, he was the only one who could go head to head and come out alive. He has given as good as he gotten. There is no reason why Clinton shouldn't be winning in the double digits except for Trump. And interestingly, he spoke more about policy than Clinton did. She pretty much spent her time and energy saying how deplorable everyone is through her proxies.

I am wondering how many people are going to demand that BJ that Madonna promised? I hope she's sued for false advertising/fraud if she refuses.

I agree completely, Bev. The Clinton smear machine wasn't built for Trump. She coulda had any of those wonk marshmallows self- flagellating for failing to signal at an intersection. The conservosphere would have excoriated them for their impurity. And all would have dismissed Hillary's emails in favor of a clean, forward-looking race. As it stands, campaigning against Trump, Hillary has struggled to prove herself the lesser evil.

Don't get me wrong, I love for an election to be a battle of the wonkiest wonks. But that's just not where things are right now.

I disagree. It's worth noting that Rubio, Walker, and Jindal would have had the benefit of not having utterly poisoned their name in the electorate the way Trump has.

The only reason Trump is doing well is because Hillary is so horrible.

Oh, and they would've invested money in a ground game and allowed themselves to be vetted by the GOP and would've hired competent people to run their campaigns. They also wouldn't have to be mothered by Kelly Anne Conway.

Kit - I agree that Hillary will win, but not tonight. Expect recounts in those very close cases and the cry of "How DARE Trump not just concede like Al Gore did in 2000???!!!!".

And much like when Obama won, there will be the ringing of the bells throughout the world will hail her the second coming of Mother Mary and she will be sainted on the spot. Just like Time Magazine declared Obama to be "god-like" with his soaring rhetoric and words that can heal the Earth.

And yet her husband is a rapist, she's a liar and the most reprehesible excuse for a woman I have ever witnessed in my lifetime...really. At least I know Trump is reprehensible, he doesn't pretend to be otherwise and makes no excuses.

At least she cancelled the giant Hudson River fireworks display that would be seen from her victory party in the Javits Center that has a giant "glass ceiling". Get it??

"Election Day is overrated because elections are overrated. Elections are useful for one thing, and it is an important one: allowing the general public to check the people and parties in power. For all the “throw the bums out” rhetoric, we historically have not done that very often, though in recent years we have swung erratically and dramatically in both presidential and congressional elections. We tolerate more than we should, but we can, when needed, show the powers that be the door."

Bev and tryanmax, I agree with a caveat. Trump has an understanding of the public and of the true nature or politics, which the other GOP guys not only can't see but won't see. And it's likely that Rubio and Jindal would be far behind at this point for that reason.

That said, the problem with Trump is that he's also so horribly flawed. He targets the wrong targets because he has "small dick" syndrome. He also has this history of sexism which can be used against him too.

Bev, Ironically, I think the Republicans in Congress will get along much better with her than they would have with Trump. For one thing, they are all beltway insider-bureaucrat types, so they have the same reflexes. For another, they have the same masters... Goldman Sachs. For another, Clinton will be much more willing to cut deals to get things done because she's seen Obama fail by being strident.

In return, she gets a liberal Supreme Court for the next twenty years, which only affects a handful of issues that the general public doesn't care about. Oh well.

First off, Happy Birthday, Kit! Second, I just got back from voting and it was pretty much painless...or as painless as making the pragmatic vote against Hillary can be when Trump is the alternative, anyway. It felt more like laying a flower on the GOP's casket than casting an actual vote...or perhaps the casket was America's. Either way we're in for some serious misery and the people who could do something about it are still completely clueless and happy that way. Being a voice in the wilderness sucks, doesn't it?

Evening, folks! I'm one red speck in a sea of blue up hear in the People's Republic of South Jersey. Hmm let's see...

"what is happening at your polling place."Brisk pace of voters coming and going at 6:00 a.m., everyone was smiling and polite.What I think: The Trump Hidden Vote will emerge (I hope its enough!)My feelings: Feeling good... a little tired of it all,what I'm drinking: Boodle's Gin on the rocks with a handful of olives thrown in...

I am all voted up! It wasn't as hideous as in 2012 where I had to wait in line for 3 hours. Just took about 20 minutes. It save alot of time knowing which voting district table to got to. We have 8 districts voting in the same place. A woman I spoke to while waiting in the line said that the line this morning went 2 times around the block - that's 8 city blocks for reference.

My favorite part is not voting for the judges. It was a "pick 9" with only 9 on the ballot. Pointless use of ink.

Btw, ours is a 3 step system. Go the the table to sign your name and get your paper ballot, go to little booth (bring your own marking instrument because I have learned from experience that there are never any pens left). Step 3 is taking your ballot to the "scanners" and slip the ballot in the scanner and wait for it to read it.

The optional step for is to head to the nearest liquore store and buy a nice bottle of Irish Whiskey, pour generously into a nice glass, and drink...;-)

Trump had an excellent name before he decided to run for president as a Republican. From 1971 until 2015, Trump was known as a lovably flamboyant billionaire with a penchant for publicity, European women and putting his name on stuff. Even in the primaries, the worst said against him was that he was a joke. It wasn't until he was the Republican nominee that he was suddenly seen as a racist, a xenophobe, an abuser of women, a mental case, possibly a Russian operative--basically the worst human being ever. That's a pretty dramatic shift in public image.

As for Trump being an awful candidate, he's pretty much exactly what you would expect from a guy who hasn't been angling for higher office since he joined the student Senate. The fact that the American public sees him as roughly on par with Hillary Clinton, who is precisely the sort of political climber Trump isn't, is beyond astonishing.

Anyway, rather dull election talk today. Almost all of my co-workers were undecided because they despised both candidates. One guy took off to make sure he'd have time to get to his polling place. Lousy day for him to be off. Highest single day amount of work I've seen since April. Gotta pick up the slack...

Kind of a quiet night, if you ask me. Nothing like the sky-high expectations and heart-and-soul-crushing defeat from four years ago. (If I recall correctly, I spent that night watching Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing movies to get my mind off the pain.)

HATRED OF WOMEN!!! This is white MALES trying to stop the first woman.

And what have the Republicans ever done for anyone anyways??? They had the Congress and Senate for two years and they did nothing with it except try to stop Obamacare! Why does these stupid angry white males support them? Boo hoo hoo.

Hey, you know those fundraiser things that look like a thermometer and get filled in as more money comes in? Well, I wish I'd made an electoral college thermometer for Trump, except shaped like a giant middle finger.

As of right now, Dist. 2 is still considered up for grabs. The last local update didn't say anything about that, but the GOP House candidate is the projected winner in the district. That said, I believe Don Bacon was leading Trump in polls.

Can you blame them for being upset? Tomorrow morning, Trump will sign an executive order re-instituting slavery, deporting all Hispanics, and letting him rape every woman in the country. Then at noon, he will push the button and start world war three.

And if we survive that... well, know now that no woman will ever be elected. And we know that angry white males will never let another black man be president. Global warming will kill us all next week. Something something hate.

Wow. Now Trump is going to be impeached. He will create a constitutional crisis with Congress and the Supreme Court. He's a Russian dupe... so says "everyone." He's going to order the military to deport millions of Americans and "the generals" are trying to figure out what orders they need to follow.

That's all horse shit. Every last word is a leftist jerkoff fantasy that isn't based in reality in any way.

Earlier, I e-mailed Andrew asking for a silver lining and I wish I can believe it. I think the worst thing of all is this...

...I'm a better man than Trump is. So is Andrew. And Kit. And tryanmax. And the rest. We may not all agree on everything but when it comes to just being a decent human being... we're better than the man who's gonna be president! And that might be the worst thing of all.

Scott, This isn't bad. It's really not. I think you're going to be shocked how little Trump matters to the country in a year or two.

Just hang tight. Stay away from the leftist tantrum that is building and will spew for a month or two. And then live your life. Probably nothing that affects you at all will change. That's how our system works... stasis.

Andrew, glasses lady did just say something that is probably false. I wish I had a link, but I came across an article last week that tallied how often each candidate used 1st person pronouns vs. 3rd person. Hillary was by far the more self-centered candidate.

1. It's physically/legally impossible to deport 11 million people. Also, Trump knows we need these people because he hires them. Expect him to demand a wall (or a sealing of borders) but to start talking about a path to citizenship.

2. Blacks. He's never mentioned any negative plans there.

3. Women. Ditto. Cut through the muck thrown at him and you'll see he's said nothing negative against women as a plan. In fact, he talks about expanding child care.

4. Gays. He's actually been pro-gay, plus the court decided that one.

Honestly, your friends have nothing to worry about.

And yes, I will cut him apart if I think he's wrong. I'm not going to go easy on him.

tryanmax, I think it's hilarious (pun intended). She was screaming the other day about Trump destroying democracy by not being willing to conceding right away... and now she's refusing to do that. LOL!

tryanmax, Can you imagine the hate and humiliation Hillary is cocktailing right now?

The smartest woman in the world... has to ride her husband's coattails... finally free, she runs for President, gets smacked down by newbie Obama Barack... becomes secretary of state becomes butt of Obama's jokes... runs again, beaten by an orange game show host she painted as Satan incarnate.

Well, this wasn't what I expected to come back to... O_o Still not sure how I feel about it all but the I'm not sorry to see the end of Hillary Clinton's political career. That's one old nightmare finally put to rest. I guess we'll see how things go! And Andrew, I hope you're right about how he's going to run things.

Daniel, I'm pretty shocked. I thought the got Trump during "rape month," when all the GOP types decided to try to destroy him again. But he lived and then the FBI and her own crapulence destroyed Hillary.

I have every reason to believe that Trump will be a good President... if not a good person. And even if he isn't, the system will keep him from doing anything stupid.

This ==> "How dare Trump win without an oiled political machine, millions in ad buys, and the backing of Wall Street!" is really funny because they keep saying it. I think it truly scares NBC that democracy lets people vote the way they want rather than the way they are supposed to.

Trump will probably spend the next four years picking fights with the GOP and bullying them into giving him whatever he wants. He'll pretty much go full Nixon, without the good qualities.

He'll probably abandon the Baltics and Poland (Bev, I remember you getting steamed at Obama over that) because of his weird bromance with Putin. That is, until Putin turns on him, at which point things will not be pretty.

We've nominated a moron who only reads books he himself has ghostwritten.

We've gotten a cross between Erdogan, Hugo Chavez, and Berlusconi. I hope the white working class of America are proud of this moment.

I predict the first thing he'll do is sick the FBI on National Review because, why not?

The next four years are going to be pretty much a replay of the last few months (and, in some ways, the last four years). He'll pick petty fights for the sheer drama of it, he'll have no idea what he's doing, he'll stumble into conflicts and fights, and so on.

Calm Kit... calm. I think you're misreading a lot. A lot of what Trump said was just repeating what Talk Radio was saying that's it. And I see no evidence that he believes any of it. Not to mention that the policies he's announced are nothing like the rhetoric from earlier in the campaign.

Same here, Andrew, though the signs that this was coming are becoming clearer now: the polls showing Trump leading among people determined to vote while Clinton just had the perception of inevitability for starters. Then there was Hillary being the boomerang candidate where everything that she accused Trump of always came back on her (and Bill) with more force than Trump. Another thought that hit me a few days before the election was that if nothing else Trump has always been good at salesmanship and it's been said repeatedly how essential that is for political success. If he didn't have that talent he'd have never come back from his bankruptcy in the early 90s at all, much less gone on to The Apprentice. Either way, I'm just glad that the election is over and that Hillary Clinton's political ambitions are too. As for Trump, I think all any of us can do now is hope for the best and prepare for the worst. Interesting times indeed...

But on a lighter note, someone take good care of that Chinese Monkey and those dogs in Cinncinnati...the polling experts should hire them 'cause they were right. Btw, the cat was wrong...never trusted cats. ;-)

I have prediction: all of those rosy employment numbers and economic indicators that we have been fed for the last 6 years are suddenly going to to morph into the REAL numbers and it will be stunning how off they have been in the reporting. That 4.8 unemployment figure will jump to the real 10+%. And just in time for Obama to blame Trump for the "sudden" crash in the economy...

Just remember these three little things about the man whose victory you are celebrating: —He has yet to distance himself from David Duke and his anti-semitic supporters. —He has yet to condemn the death threats against journalists and critics. —He has yet to pledge that he will defend our NATO allies, particularly the Baltics and Poland.

These aren't difficult. The first one is really easy considering his daughter is Jewish but he seems to think that anti-semites, wanna-be brownshirts, and Russian nationalists are the most important parts of his base.

so Kit, it is fair to say that you prefer lying, thieving, murdering pedophiles for your political comrades. Good to know that. BTW speaking of the Klan, didn't Hillary try to channel Byrd at some point?

"So, I'm afraid to say I can't join anybody in celebrating because there is nothing to celebrate."

Kit, I agree with you to a point. But this is what happens when the elites f*ck the heartland over and over. Insult them by for being " deplorable, ignorant, racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, islamaphobic bigot who are just too ignorant to be living" And the Dems MUST come to terms with what they have done. That they are not the smart ones, the elites are not the smart ones. It's the people who put food on the tables, clothes on the backs, lift/tote and generally keep this country running. It's not DC pundits, politicians, professors, or any other "P" word I can think of. And let's talk "groundg game". Do you know where Trump spent most of HIS time? In the Heartland...while Clinton spent all of her time in Urbania schmoozing with the MSM, Hollywood celebrities thinking that "the little people really gave a crap WHO she schmoozed with while at the same time sh*tting on all of those little people thinking that by calling them every single name in the book that somehow they would be too embarrassed to NOT vote for her.

This is what Democracy *with a capital D" looks like...it was the same in 1776 too...